Statutory Issues Related to Investigations
Objectives

- Federal Wiretap Act (FWA)
- Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)
- Stored Communications Act
- Privacy Protection Act
- Pen Register/Trap and Trace Statute
- USA PATRIOT Act
- Homeland Security Act

In this topic, we will review various laws involved in the conduct of cybercrime investigations. These laws include the Federal Wiretap Act \(FWA\), the Electronic Communications Privacy Act \(ECPA\) \(which amended the FWA in Title I and set out the Stored Communications Act in Title II\), the Privacy Protection Act, the Pen Register\/Trap and Trace Statute, and finally two fairly recent laws that modified several of the above laws, the USA PATRIOT Act and the Homeland Security Act.
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